Legal Considerations for Healthcare Professionals Adopting a Coach Approach. As healthcare professionals expand their services to include coaching, understanding the legal, ethical, and business considerations is critical. This two-part webinar series (each 90-minutes), co-presented by Hélène Thériault, intellectual property lawyer Pablo Tseng, and business lawyer Claire Huang, provides practical guidance on navigating intellectual property, trademarks, business structures, billing, and confidentiality. Whether you’re creating content, setting up a business, or integrating coaching into therapy, these sessions will assist you with the tools to operate your business confidently and ethically.
Can’t attend live? Not a problem, you’ll have access to the recording for up to 60 days following each webinar.
Learning Objectives:
- Define clear boundaries between therapy and coaching practices to avoid legal and ethical pitfalls while maintaining distinct professional roles.
- Identify key steps to protect intellectual property, including tools, frameworks, and digital content, and understand when to trademark your work.
- Explore practical strategies for navigating billing, confidentiality, and service differentiation when offering coaching services beyond traditional therapy.
Meet the Experts
Part 1: Structuring and Expanding Your Business | January 23 2025 (12:00 to 1:30 p.m. PST)
Claire Huang is a multi-jurisdictional business lawyer with experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, venture capital investments, and other general corporate and commercial matters. Claire assists clients at all stages of the business cycle, providing them with practical advice and creative solutions as their companies grow and expand.
Part 2: Protecting Your Work – Intellectual Property and Content Creation | February 6 2025 (12:00 to 1:30 p.m. PST)
Pablo Tseng is a partner at McMillan LLP. He devotes his practice to trademark and patent prosecution, IP contentious issues, and IP licensing matters, and to acting in connection with complex technology- and IP-focused transactions. He is also highly active in the intellectual property community in Canada, serving on a number of interest-focused committees with the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada and International Trademark Association. He is a sought-after speaker in intellectual property and regularly writes on intellectual property topics. His legal publications have been cited and referenced by the Parliament of Canada.
